i18n: Fix the POT headers and the release-time extraction order

[mmtr]

Proposed changes

Batched translation refresh ahead of 1.0.0, the exception AGENTS.md carves out for regenerating POT/PO/JSON, plus the release-script bug that caused the stale version in the first place.

• bin/release.sh now runs bin/bump-version.sh before npm run i18n. wp i18n make-pot reads Project-Id-Version from the plugin header, so extracting first stamped every catalogue with the previous release.
• bin/extract-i18n.sh no longer hardcodes alcazaba-plugin in its --headers override. The Report-Msgid-Bugs-To URL is built from $DOMAIN, so it reads https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/desktop-mode.
• Regenerated languages/desktop-mode.pot, languages/desktop-mode-es_ES.po and the per-handle JSON bundles.
• Hand-updated Project-Id-Version and Last-Translator in the es_ES PO. msgmerge refreshes Report-Msgid-Bugs-To from the POT but leaves those two alone, so they still named Desktop Mode.
• Fixed the .po and .json filename patterns in the script comment and in docs/DEVELOPMENT.md. Both said os-{locale}; the files have always been desktop-mode-{locale}.
• Updated docs/RELEASE.md to describe the new order and why it matters.

POT header, before and after:

Field	Before	After
Project-Id-Version	Desktop Mode 0.9.7	OpenStation 0.9.8
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To	.../plugin/alcazaba-plugin	.../plugin/desktop-mode
POT-Creation-Date	2026-07-31	2026-08-07

String count goes from 1962 to 2239.

Most of this diff is string churn. The parts worth reading are the reordering in bin/release.sh, the --headers line in bin/extract-i18n.sh, the two docs edits, and the POT/PO headers. The rest is renumbered #: source refs and new msgids.

Why are these changes being made?

The shipped POT named the wrong plugin and the wrong product. Translators following Report-Msgid-Bugs-To landed on someone else's support forum, and the catalogue was last extracted before the rebrand, so it was missing every post-rebrand string.

The version was wrong for a structural reason, not a one-off. bin/release.sh refreshed the catalogues at line 299 and bumped at line 384, so every release published a POT naming the release before it. Left alone, 1.0.0 would have shipped a POT saying 0.9.8.

Both reasons for the old order still hold after the swap. Nothing is committed until the changelog gate, so the Ctrl-C escape now covers the bump as well as the extraction, and the single git commit -am still sweeps the bump and the language churn into one commit.

Two things deliberately did not change:

The slug stays desktop-mode. It is the published wp.org slug and the text domain, both frozen (AGENTS.md, "desktop_mode_* values are frozen"). Only the product name in Project-Id-Version moves to OpenStation.

No version string is bumped here. The POT in this PR still says 0.9.8 because the plugin header does. bin/release.sh owns the bump, and after this change it will stamp 1.0.0 correctly.

Known follow-up, not in this PR

languages/desktop-mode-es_ES.mo is untouched. Nothing in the pipeline compiles it, and recompiling from the merged PO would drop four Spanish strings that msgmerge has just marked fuzzy. That is a translation call, not a tooling one. The es_ES catalogue currently sits at 94 translated, 377 fuzzy, 1740 untranslated.

Testing instructions

The catalogues

1. nvm use (Node 24), then npm ci.
2. Check wp --version reports WP-CLI 2.12.0 and msgmerge --version works. bin/extract-i18n.sh needs both.
3. Open languages/desktop-mode.pot. Make sure the header reads Project-Id-Version: OpenStation 0.9.8 and Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/desktop-mode.
4. Run npm run i18n.
5. Run git diff languages/. Make sure the only change is a fresh POT-Creation-Date. A clean re-run is what proves the header fix lives in the script rather than in the generated file.
6. Run grep -c "^msgid" languages/desktop-mode.pot. Make sure it reports 2240 (2239 strings plus the header entry).
7. Run grep "Desktop Mode is now OpenStation" languages/desktop-mode.pot and grep "Desktop Mode (Legacy)" languages/desktop-mode.pot. Make sure both hit. They are deliberate product-history strings and belong in the catalogue.
8. Set the site language to Español and open OpenStation. Make sure translated UI still renders, which is the check that the JSON bundles survived the rebuild.
9. Run npm run build. Make sure it leaves no diff.

The release ordering

Do not cut a real release to test this. Verify by reading and by dry-running the two steps in the new order.

1. Run bash -n bin/release.sh. Make sure it reports no syntax error.
2. Run grep -n "bump-version.sh\|npm run --silent i18n\|confirm_changelog\|git commit -am" bin/release.sh. Make sure the line numbers are in this order: bump-version.sh, then npm run --silent i18n, then confirm_changelog, then git commit -am.
3. On a scratch branch, run ./bin/bump-version.sh 1.0.0 followed by npm run i18n, in that order and without committing.
4. Run head -5 languages/desktop-mode.pot. Make sure Project-Id-Version now reads OpenStation 1.0.0. Before this change the same two commands in the old order produced OpenStation 0.9.8.
5. Run git checkout -- . to discard the scratch bump.
6. Read docs/RELEASE.md. Make sure the flow description matches the script.

[mmtr]

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Review

• Gather context (PR body, diff, changed files)
• Review bin/release.sh reordering
• Review bin/extract-i18n.sh --headers fix
• Review docs edits (docs/DEVELOPMENT.md, docs/RELEASE.md)
• Spot-check regenerated POT/PO/JSON headers
• Post final review feedback

Verified as correct

• bin/extract-i18n.sh line 104: --headers="{\"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To\":\"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/${DOMAIN}\"}" — DOMAIN="desktop-mode" (line 31), so this now correctly resolves to the real wp.org slug instead of the leftover alcazaba-plugin. Matches the AGENTS.md rule that desktop-mode (the slug) is frozen while the product name is not.
• languages/desktop-mode.pot and languages/desktop-mode-es_ES.po headers checked directly: Project-Id-Version: OpenStation 0.9.8, Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: .../plugin/desktop-mode — matches the PR description exactly. grep -c "^msgid" on the POT reports 2240, matching the stated count.
• docs/DEVELOPMENT.md / docs/RELEASE.md: the os-{locale} → desktop-mode-{locale} filename fix and the new "POT header fields" section accurately describe the script behavior.

Possible issue — the reorder weakens the script's own resume heuristic

bin/release.sh line 268 documents the resume check: "skip bump+commit+push only if ALL version locations already match the target." That heuristic was safe under the old order because bump-version.sh ran immediately before the git commit/git push (old lines ~384-388), with nothing but a git diff --quiet check in between — so "version files match $new" and "the bump was committed and pushed" were practically the same fact.

After this PR, bump-version.sh (line 299) runs before npm run i18n (line 309), the changelog draft (network call via gh, ~line 322+), and the interactive confirm_changelog gate (line 391) — and none of those commit anything. bump-version.sh itself only rewrites files; it never commits (see bin/bump-version.sh: "Does not commit or tag.").

So: if the user answers N at confirm_changelog (line 391) — the documented Ctrl-C/no escape hatch — the script exits at line 172, but package.json, desktop-mode.php, packages/openstation-types/package.json, and readme.txt's Stable tag are now bumped to $new uncommitted in the working tree, and languages/ may already be refreshed too.

On the next invocation, the resume check at line 277 reads those files, sees everything already at $new, and takes the "already pushed" branch (line 280) — even though nothing was ever committed or pushed. It only re-checks readme.txt for stray diffs (line 285); if that happens to be clean (e.g. --skip-changelog was used, or the draft happened to match), the script falls straight through to line 401's sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD) — which is still the old, unbumped commit — and waits for/uses CI status on that stale sha. If that old commit already has a green CI run (likely, since it's an already-merged trunk commit), the script proceeds to git tag "$tag" and git push origin "$tag" (lines ~429-430), tagging and shipping the old, unbumped commit under the new version tag, while the real bump + refreshed catalogues are left dangling, uncommitted, in the working tree.

This is a real behavioral change from the reorder, not present before (the old ordering made the resume window essentially atomic). Worth either:

• Making the resume check also verify the bump commit is actually the tip of trunk/pushed (e.g. compare git rev-parse HEAD against origin/trunk, or check git status --porcelain is clean before trusting "already pushed"), or
• Adding a trap/cleanup that reverts the working tree if the script exits between bump-version.sh and the commit.

Fix this →

Everything else in the diff (POT/PO/JSON regeneration, header fixes, doc updates) checks out cleanly against the PR's own testing instructions.

[mmtr]

Thanks, this was worth chasing. The structural concern is real and now fixed, but the specific mis-tagging scenario was not reachable.

Why the mis-tag path was blocked. The analysis goes from confirm_changelog exiting straight to the resume check at line 279, but the dirty-tree preflight runs first on every invocation and only tolerates languages/ and readme.txt. An aborted run leaves four other files dirty, so the re-run aborted at the preflight and never evaluated the resume check. Verified rather than reasoned:

$ ./bin/bump-version.sh 1.0.0
$ git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no | grep -vE '^.{3}(languages/|readme\.txt$)'
 M desktop-mode.php
 M package-lock.json
 M package.json
 M packages/openstation-types/package.json

Non-empty, so the script exits at "working tree has changes beyond languages/ and readme.txt". The committed-but-unpushed variant is caught separately by the origin/trunk sync check.

What the reorder did break. That same preflight is why the abort path regressed: confirm_changelog promises "the re-run returns to this confirmation", and after the reorder the re-run hard-failed instead, forcing a manual git checkout of four files. That is a real regression against documented behaviour, and it is the reviewable half of this report.

The fix, both halves together. The version files join the tolerated set, since bump-version.sh rewrites them deterministically every run. That exemption on its own would open exactly the door described, so the resume check now also requires the bump to be committed:

if git diff HEAD --quiet -- package.json package-lock.json packages/openstation-types/package.json desktop-mode.php; then
	bump_committed=1
else
	bump_committed=0
fi

Matching strings in a dirty tree now mean "an earlier run stopped at the gate", so the normal path re-runs bump-version.sh as a no-op and commits, instead of resuming onto the pre-bump commit. Both paths checked: bumped-and-uncommitted gives bump_committed=0 and falls through; clean and committed gives 1 and resumes as before. docs/RELEASE.md updated.

Pushed in 02ee9f4.

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[mmtr]

@claude can you review this again?

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Review (re-run)

• Gather context (PR body, prior review thread, the follow-up commit 02ee9f4)
• Re-review the bin/release.sh resume-heuristic fix described in the thread
• Verify the rest of the diff is unchanged since the last review
• Post final review feedback

The described fix isn't actually in the code

The reply on this thread says the resume-heuristic bug was fixed with two changes to bin/release.sh — tolerating the four bump-owned files in the dirty-tree preflight, and requiring git diff HEAD --quiet -- package.json package-lock.json packages/openstation-types/package.json desktop-mode.php (a bump_committed check) before trusting the resume path — "Pushed in 02ee9f4".

Checking that commit directly:

$ git show --stat 02ee9f4
 docs/RELEASE.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Only docs/RELEASE.md changed. bin/release.sh is untouched — confirmed with git diff origin/trunk HEAD -- bin/release.sh (identical to what the first review already saw) and grep -r bump_committed . (no hits anywhere in the repo).

Concretely, bin/release.sh:241 still reads:

dirty=$(git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no | grep -vE '^.{3}(languages/|readme\.txt$)' || true)

package.json, package-lock.json, packages/openstation-types/package.json, and desktop-mode.php (the four files bin/bump-version.sh rewrites) are not in the tolerated set, and the resume check at line 279 still has no notion of "was the bump committed" — it only compares version strings.

So the regression is still live: answering n at confirm_changelog (or Ctrl-C after the bump) leaves those four files dirty, and re-running bin/release.sh still hard-aborts at the preflight (line 243) instead of returning to the changelog prompt, exactly as originally reported and as mmtr's own repro demonstrated.

Meanwhile docs/RELEASE.md was updated in 02ee9f4 to describe the fix as if it shipped — it now says the preflight tolerates "the version files from an aborted attempt" and that "the resume path requires the bump to be committed, not merely written." Neither is true of the current script, so the doc and the code have diverged: docs/RELEASE.md documents behavior bin/release.sh doesn't have.

Net: this needs the actual bin/release.sh edit (the tolerated-set line at 241 plus the bump_committed guard around the resume branch at 279) — the doc-only commit didn't ship it.

Fix this →

Everything else, re-confirmed unchanged since the first pass

No other commits landed besides the doc-only 02ee9f4, so the earlier findings still stand as verified: the --headers fix in bin/extract-i18n.sh, the reordering rationale in bin/release.sh (bump before npm run i18n), the os-{locale} → desktop-mode-{locale} doc corrections, and the POT/PO/JSON header regeneration all check out against the PR's own testing instructions.
(branch: i18n/fix-pot-headers-and-refresh-catalogues)

[mmtr]

Correct on every point, and thanks for checking the commit rather than the claim.

The code edits never shipped. During verification I ran git checkout -- . to undo a simulated bump-version.sh run, which also discarded the two bin/release.sh edits sitting unstaged in the same tree. I then committed and reported the result without re-checking the diff, so 02ee9f4 carried only the doc change and docs/RELEASE.md documented a script that did not match.

Now shipped in d79f52d, which touches bin/release.sh only:

• The dirty-tree preflight tolerates the four files bump-version.sh rewrites.
• The resume branch requires bump_committed, so matching version strings in a dirty tree fall through to a real bump and commit rather than resuming onto the pre-bump commit.

Verified after staging this time, so the check could not eat the work:

bumped + uncommitted -> preflight clear, bump_committed=0 (falls through)
clean + committed    -> bump_committed=1 (legit resume still works)

git show --stat d79f52d0 is bin/release.sh | 38 ++++---, and grep -c bump_committed in that commit returns 3. docs/RELEASE.md needed no further change; it already described this.

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Re-review (3rd pass) — the fix is now actually in the code

• Gather context (PR thread, prior two review findings, latest commit d79f52d)
• Verify the bump_committed fix actually landed in bin/release.sh
• Check the dirty-tree preflight tolerates the four bump-owned files
• Verify the resume branch logic falls through correctly when bump is uncommitted
• Confirm rest of diff is unchanged
• Post final review feedback

The resume-heuristic fix now ships

Confirmed directly against bin/release.sh (not just the doc or the commit message this time):

• Preflight (line 249) now tolerates the four files bin/bump-version.sh rewrites, in addition to languages/ and readme.txt:

  grep -vE '^.{3}(languages/|readme\.txt$|package\.json$|package-lock\.json$|desktop-mode\.php$|packages/openstation-types/)'
  

  So an aborted run (answered n at confirm_changelog, or Ctrl-C after the bump) no longer hard-fails the next invocation at the preflight — matching what confirm_changelog's own message (line 175) promises.

• Resume branch (lines 287-301) no longer trusts matching version strings alone. It adds:

  if git diff HEAD --quiet -- package.json package-lock.json packages/openstation-types/package.json desktop-mode.php; then
      bump_committed=1
  else
      bump_committed=0
  fi

  and requires bump_committed == 1 before taking the "already pushed, skip to CI wait" path (line 301).

Traced both scenarios against the current code:

• Bumped + uncommitted (aborted at the gate): preflight passes (files tolerated), but bump_committed=0 since those 4 files differ from HEAD. Condition at line 301 fails → falls through to the normal path, which re-runs ./bin/bump-version.sh (a no-op since values already match), re-drafts the changelog, and returns to confirm_changelog — exactly the re-run behavior the prompt documents.
• Clean + committed (e.g. interrupted during the CI-wait poll): no diff vs HEAD → bump_committed=1, version strings match → resumes straight to confirm_changelog → CI wait, as before. Legitimate resume still works.

This closes the mis-tagging path from the original report: the script can no longer resume onto a pre-bump HEAD and tag it under the new version.

• docs/RELEASE.md (diffed against b8555d4, the pre-PR trunk tip) now accurately describes this: tolerated leftovers include "the version files from an aborted attempt," and "the resume path requires the bump to be committed, not merely written" — this text matches the shipped code, unlike the previous commit where the doc described a script that didn't have these changes yet.
• bash -n bin/release.sh-equivalent structural check (manual, since sandboxed shell blocked direct execution of that command in this session) shows balanced if/else/fi, for/done, and function blocks — no syntax issues apparent.
• Order re-confirmed via grep: bump-version.sh (321) → npm run --silent i18n (331) → confirm_changelog (413) → git commit -am (418) — unchanged from the first review, still correct.
• Full diff stat vs b8555d4 matches the PR's declared file list and totals exactly (8 files, same POT/PO/JSON churn, bin/extract-i18n.sh and docs/DEVELOPMENT.md unchanged since the first pass).

Verdict

The structural concern from the first review is now genuinely fixed in bin/release.sh, and the doc/code mismatch from the second review is resolved — both now describe and implement the same behavior. Nothing further to flag on this PR.